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    "THE FOUR BEASTS"

    "Imprisonment for me is a religious retreat (khalwa)." Nique les poulets, nique les cochons.
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    Ayahuasca, Unity

    AYAHUASCA Ayahuasca is a vine native to the Amazon Jungle. It is also known as Yage, and was known to early scientists studying it as Telepathine, and is known to botanists as Banisteriopsis Caapi. It contains an alkaloid known as Harmaline. The vine is mixed with two types of leaves known as...
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    Facing the Reality of Climate Change

    Will there be, “a new heaven, and a new earth” after this one is destroyed? Perhaps, but we cannot afford to rely on it. Really, it is a nice sort of idea, that everything will be renewed and made good by the end of society as we know it. But it is just an idea, a dream, a philosophical vision...
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    Brand Names and Sweatshops

    Imagine believing that by giving people tokens called “money” you could purchase the magical power to charm people by your appearance, through the means of displaying a certain “word of power” on your clothing. One would think such a belief very superstitious, something of a backward and...
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    Finding Your Ishta-Devata

    In Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism), it is widely considered that the Ultimate Divinity is incomprehensible, beyond concepts and words. Though it may be possible to ascribe some kind of labels, such as Sat-Chit-Ananda (Eternity, Knowledge, and Bliss) to this Ultimate Reality, it remains in many ways...
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    The Real Hero and Heroine of the Garden of Eden Story

    The generally accepted interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden, and the Tree of Knowledge, is that the Serpent was evil, Eve (and Adam to a lesser extent) sinners. Many believe that for their act of disobedience to Yahweh, they brought a curse on the whole of humanity, causing many...
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    Kala (Time and Death)

    The Sanskrit word Kala has a number of significations: "a fixed or right point of time, a space of time, time ... destiny, fate ... death". We will focus on the fact that it signifies both “time” and “death”. Everything which exists in time has an ending, nothing is permanent. Death, change, is...
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    Thomas Sankara

    Not wanting to blow my own trumpet here :p but this guy was awesome... As it happens, he was killed by Blaise Compaoré, who apparently was literally adopted by Sankara's parents as a child, his brother basically. A true story of betrayal by a real Judas. But anyway, what Sankara accomplished was...
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    The Serpent as a Symbol of Wisdom

    I think the Serpent has got a bit of an unfair treatment in the Abrahamic religions, particularly due to the snake story in Genesis. Of course in the Christian interpretation of this story the serpent is evil, staining humanity with the taint of original sin that requires the crucifixion of...
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    Trump admits moving US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was ‘for the evangelicals’

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/trump-us-embassay-evangelicals-wisconsin-rally-a9675466.html
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    "Cults"

    The term “Cult” used in reference to religious movements is controversial, and for good reason. It can be used to demean the religious practises of those who fall outside the mainstream, being used as a tool of the powerful and those who wish to preserve the dominance of some traditional...
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    US Interventions In Latin America

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    Devotional Music

    A place to share music from all and any traditions. "By night we hasten in darkness to search for living water, only our thirst leads us onward, only our thirst leads us onward"
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    Fascism

    From "The Social Transformation of Humanity" by Samael Aun Weor The term FASCISM comes from the word FASCIO and has its origin in the LATIN term FASCIS whose meaning is BUNDLE or set, this reminds us of the BUNDLE of sticks with the axe, symbol of the Divinity, in the center. In the Ancient...
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    Nakba Day

    Today, May 15th, is Nakba day. Please take a moment to remember the 750,000 Palestinians driven from their homes and forced into refugee camps during the ethnic cleansing of 1948, and their descendants still living in those refugee camps. Not to forget the massacres, including but not only that...
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    Religions Should Come Together To Solve The Homeless Problem

    Chapter 15 of "The Social Christ" by Samael Aun Weor In a newspaper article, we have found the following moving story: “A little boy, with excessive duties for his age, searches for his father. “Unable to study since he has to care for his sick mother, the little boy of eleven years, Carlo...
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    Śrī Śikṣāṣṭakam of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

    Chaitanya Mahprabhu was an Avatar of Krishna, who came to inaugurate the Bhakti movement and widely spread the chanting of the Holy Name of Krishna, the most effective means of God-realization in Kali Yuga. Glory to the Sri Krishna Sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust...
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    Karl Marx

    What do people think of him? Was he responsible for the madness of Soviet Communism and Chinese Maoism? Or was his work misinterpreted or used by others with their own agenda? My personal idea is that he was a person with some humanitarian feeling, he genuinely felt the suffering of the...
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    "The Thunder, Perfect Mind"

    From Nag Hammadi, where the Gospel of Thomas was found... Not possible to copy-paste it here as it loses the formatting, so the link is: http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html
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    The Social Christ and The Social Transformation Of Humanity

    I translated these books a while back but never got around to posting them both on here. They were written by Samael Aun Weor, an interesting guy who had some very insightful ideas. Basically the books go into some detail about how the abuses of capitalism lead towards communism, though they...
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